Ritual, Family and Therapy in Anglophone Literatures

Lars Heiler is an associate professor of British and American Literature and Culture at the University of Kassel, Germany. He is the author of a monograph on Regression and Cultural Critique in the Contemporary British Novel (2004, in German) and is co-editor of Taboo and Transgression in British Literature From the Renaissance to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He has published book chapters on literature and censorship, literature and therapy, literature and the Holocaust, literary representations of femininity, postmodern representations of the pastoral, US and Canadian adaptations of Shakespeare, and post-colonial re-writings. He has given public talks on British and US theatre and fiction, including Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Truman Capote, and Noah Haidle. He has also co-written several stage plays, most recently a play on the complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare, entitled Shakespeare - Cut and in One Piece (2023).

• Ch1 :Introduction.- Ch2 :Theoretical framework.- Ch3 :Religious frames, artistic transformations.- Ch4 :Agonistic families in American theatre.- Ch5 :Unusual Families and New Scottish identities.- Ch6: The Anatomy of Grief.-  Ch7 : Conclusion Liminality-multiperspectivity-Transformativity.